No Right Turn

Another weekend, another climate change disaster in Aotearoa. Flooding, people without power, roads blocked, people dead. And the Prime Mini...

Aotearoa is currently in the tail end of our first climate disaster of the year, with flooding in Northland , Tairawhiti , and Coromandel , ...

Unreinforced masonry buildings killed 40 people in the Christchurch earthquakes , and as a result owners were required to fix their deathtra...

Today, a major fire broke out on the Port Hills in Ōtutahi . Like its 2017 predecessors, it is almost certainly exacerbated by climate chang...

Over the weekend, a no-longer rare "medicane" flooded the city of Derna in Libya. The confirmed death toll is already over 5,000, ...

RNZ has a piece today revealing that Fire and Emergency NZ had not trained to deal with landslides before Cyclone Gabrielle in February . T...

Over on The Kaka , Bernard Hickey is calling the Loafers Lodge fire a symptom of our bipartisan, low-tax, low-debt, no-housing, fuck-the-po...

This morning a hostel burned down in Wellington, killing ten people . Aotearoa is a small country, and a disaster of this scale is unusual, ...

As I write, Auckland is flooding, for the second time this year. One once-in-a-hundred year weather event in a year is unfortunate; two in a...

Yesterday the government introduced the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill to the House. The bill is a response to Cyclone ...

There's a lot going on today - the political circus in Westminster, an apparent political assassination in Japan, the ongoing war in Ukr...

There were 9,495 new covid cases today, and another 15 deaths . So naturally, the government is lowering the alert level to Orange (which i...

So, having saved us from Covid for 18 months, our government has just surrendered to the virus, announcing a "transition plan" to ...

Over the weekend Westport was hit by devastating floods. Half the town had to be evacuated, 89 homes (so far) are uninhabitable , and anothe...

Over the weekend devastating floods hit the South Island . Half the population of Westport were forced from their homes, and it looks like h...

The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 includes significant powers required for the government to manage the pandemic, including powe...

That is the finding of the High Court on the first nine days of New Zealand's lockdown , when we were all "ordered" to stay i...

Its official: the 2020 election has been delayed until October 17 . Which, given the difficulties of campaigning in Auckland at the moment, ...

What's National's first move under lockdown? Call for elections to be delayed : National leader Judith Collins is demanding Prime M...

So, the inevitable has happened and we have Covid in the community again. So now we have to do it all again to try and get it back under con...